Freemium
ThumbnailsMaker
Brief a video idea or YouTube URL and get five hook-differentiated thumbnails built from your own face and footage. Edit in place, ship to a YouTube draft.
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About ThumbnailsMaker
ThumbnailsMaker is AI thumbnail art direction for YouTube creators. It is a packaging tool, not another one-click AI thumbnail generator or template gallery. You start with a brief: paste a video idea or a YouTube URL and describe the angle you are leaning toward. About a minute and a half later you get five thumbnail packs, each built on a different hook: a specific number anchored on your face, a timeline as proof, a before/after contrast, a single hero object, or a direct question.
The packs are composed, not invented. ThumbnailsMaker uses your own face, footage and assets plus designer-taste rules, so the results look like your channel and not like generic AI art. There are no watermarks and no AI-coded visual signature. You review all five packs side by side with equal weight, because nothing gets pre-selected as "recommended" and the creator always makes the call. You can rewrite a kicker or headline in place without regenerating, then download the thumbnail or ship the one you choose straight to a YouTube draft.
A quality pass called Designer Pass checks every pack before you see it. It holds back hooks that use clickbait language or repeat another pack's framing, flags briefs that are too vague to work with, and shows you why a pack was held back instead of quietly retrying. That keeps the five options genuinely different from each other.
The free Hook Library, a public reference guide to hook patterns that work after the clickbait era (stakes, transformation arcs, specificity anchors, curiosity gaps, counter-intuitive outcomes, authority signals and aspirational identity), and the quarterly Click Zine field study come with the product.
ThumbnailsMaker is built for creators who publish on a weekly cadence and care about packaging: solo YouTubers, educators, indie hackers with a channel and small channel teams. Plans start at $9/month, every tier shares the same product and only the monthly pack limit changes, free access codes are available, and there is a 15-day refund on your first subscription. Cancel any time from a single screen.
The packs are composed, not invented. ThumbnailsMaker uses your own face, footage and assets plus designer-taste rules, so the results look like your channel and not like generic AI art. There are no watermarks and no AI-coded visual signature. You review all five packs side by side with equal weight, because nothing gets pre-selected as "recommended" and the creator always makes the call. You can rewrite a kicker or headline in place without regenerating, then download the thumbnail or ship the one you choose straight to a YouTube draft.
A quality pass called Designer Pass checks every pack before you see it. It holds back hooks that use clickbait language or repeat another pack's framing, flags briefs that are too vague to work with, and shows you why a pack was held back instead of quietly retrying. That keeps the five options genuinely different from each other.
The free Hook Library, a public reference guide to hook patterns that work after the clickbait era (stakes, transformation arcs, specificity anchors, curiosity gaps, counter-intuitive outcomes, authority signals and aspirational identity), and the quarterly Click Zine field study come with the product.
ThumbnailsMaker is built for creators who publish on a weekly cadence and care about packaging: solo YouTubers, educators, indie hackers with a channel and small channel teams. Plans start at $9/month, every tier shares the same product and only the monthly pack limit changes, free access codes are available, and there is a 15-day refund on your first subscription. Cancel any time from a single screen.
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